1480s in art

The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 1482 – A Milanese Duke commissions Leonardo da Vinci to make an equine statue that would have been the largest in the world. A clay cast is made over sixteen years but the bronze is appropriated for use in cannons and the cast is destroyed when the Duke’s castle falls to French invaders.
• 1487 – Leonardo da Vinci creates his "Vitruvian Man" drawing (approximate date).
• 1488 - Giovanni di Stefano (sculptor) makes floor intarsia showing Hermes Trismegistus, Plato and Marsilio Ficino in west entrance of Siena Cathedral.

Paintings

• 1480: Carlo Crivelli – Madonna and Child
• 1480: Giovanni Bellini – St. Francis in Ecstasy
• 1482: Sandro Botticelli – Primavera
• 1486: Carlo Crivelli – Annunciation with St. Emidius
• c.1486: Sandro Botticelli – The Birth of Venus

Births

• 1480: Giovanni Francesco Caroto – Italian painter active in Verona (d. 1555/1558)
• 1480: Lorenzo Lotto – Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator (d. 1556)
• 1480: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein – German painter, designer, and wood engraver (d. 1540)
• 1480: Palma il Vecchio – Italian painter of the Venetian school (d. 1528)
• 1480: Marcantonio Raimondi – Italian engraver (d. 1534)
• 1480: Hans Baldung – German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (d. 1545)
• 1480: Jean Clouet – miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance (d. 1541)
• 1480: Nicola Filotesio – Italian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 1547)
• 1480: Joachim Patinir – Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter (d. 1524)
• 1480: Albrecht Altdorfer – German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (d. 1538)
• 1480: Jerg Ratgeb – German painter (d. 1526)
• 1480: Raimo Epifanio Tesauro – Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes (d. 1511)
• 1480: Jan Wellens de Cock, Flemish painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance (d. 1527)
• 1480/1482: Bernardino Luini – North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle (d. 1532)
• 1480/1485: Girolamo Savoldo – Italian High Renaissance painter (d. 1548)
• 1480/1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (d. 1551)
• 1480/1490: Joos van Cleve – Netherlandish painter (d. 1540/1541)
• 1480/1490: Ortolano Ferrarese – Italian painter of the Ferrara School (d. 1525)
• 1480: Chen Daofu – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1544)
• 1481: Baldassare Peruzzi – Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
• 1481: Benedetto Montagna – Italian engraver (d. 1555/1558)
• 1481: Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo) – Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (d. 1559)
• 1482: Richard Aertsz – Dutch historical painter (d. 1577)
• 1482: Giulio Campagnola – Italian engraver and painter, invented the stipple technique in engraving (d. 1515)
• 1482: Franciabigio – Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance (d. 1525)
• 1483: Raphael – Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (d. 1520)
• 1483: Chén Chún – Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (d. 1544)
• 1483: Agostino Busti – High Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1548)
• 1483: Il Pordenone – Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance (d. 1539)
• 1483: Simon Bening – miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school (d. 1561)
• 1484: Niklaus Manuel – Swiss dramaturg, painter, graphic artist and politician (d. 1530)
• 1485: Titian – leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1576)
• 1485: Urs Graf – Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker of woodcuts, etchings and engravings (d. c.1529)
• 1485: Sebastiano del Piombo (byname of Sebastiano Luciani) – Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter, famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school (d. 1547)
• 1485: Francesco Vecellio – Venetian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian (d. 1560)
• 1485: Jean Duvet – French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver (d. 1562)
• 1485: Wolf Huber – Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School (d. 1553)
• 1485: Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter (d. 1566)
• 1485: Jean Juste – Italian sculptor (d. 1549)
• 1485: Antonio Semini – Italian painter active in his native Genoa (d. 1547)
• 1486: Cavazzola – Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona (b. 1522)
• 1486: Domenico di Pace Beccafumi – Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1551)
• 1486: Jacopo Sansovino – Italian sculptor and architect, especially around the Piazza San Marco in Venice (d. 1570)
• 1486: Andrea del Sarto – Italian painter from Florence (d. 1531)
• 1486: Giacomo Francia – Italian engraver (d. 1557)
• 1487: Francesco Xanto Avelli – Italian ceramicist (d. 1542)
• 1487: Andrea Sabbatini – Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1530)
• 1487-1491: Bernard van Orley – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (d. 1541)
• 1488: Alonso Berruguete – Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1561)
• 1488: Xie Shichen – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (d. unknown)
• 1489: Antonio da Correggio – painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1534)

Deaths

• 1489: Simon Marmion – Netherlandish painter (b. 1425)
• 1488: Andrea del Verrocchio, influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence (b. 1435)
• 1486: Nicolas Froment – French painter (b. 1435)
• 1485: Shingei – Japanese painter and artist in the Muromachi period (b. 1431)
• 1484: Mino da Fiesole – Italian sculptor from Tuscany (b. 1429)
• 1482: Hugo van der Goes, Flemish painter (b. 1440)
• 1482: Giovanni di Paolo – Italian painter and illustrator of manuscripts (b. 1399/1403)
• 1482: Luca della Robbia – Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (b. 1400)
• 1481: Jean Fouquet – French painter, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature (d. 1420)
• 1481: Agostino di Duccio – Italian early Renaissance sculptor (b. 1418)
• 1481: Sano di Pietro – an early Italian Renaissance painter from Siena, (d. 1406)
• 1480: Vecchietta – Siennese painter (b. 1410)
• 1480: Simone Pope the Elder – Italian painter of the Renaissance period (b. 1430)
• 1480: Joos van Wassenhove – Early Netherlandish painter who later worked in Italy (b. 1410)
• 1480: Lin Liang – Chinese painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1416)